Vortex nucleation and flux front propagation in type II superconductors

✍ Scribed by Stefano Zapperi; José S. Andrade Jr.; André A. Moreira

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 179 KB
• Volume: 342
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0378-4371
• DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2004.04.098

✦ Synopsis

We study ux penetration in a disordered type II superconductor by simulations of interacting vortices, using a Monte-Carlo method for vortex nucleation. Our results show that a detailed description of the nucleation process yields a correction to the scaling laws usually associated with ux front invasion. We propose a simple model to account for these corrections.